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@@ -271,12 +271,14 @@ filename=str      Fio normally makes up a filename based on the job name,
                can specify a number of files by separating the names with a
                ':' colon. So if you wanted a job to open /dev/sda and /dev/sdb
                as the two working files, you would use
-               filename=/dev/sda:/dev/sdb. If the wanted filename does need to
-               include a colon, then escape that with a '\' character. For
-               instance, if the filename is "/dev/dsk/foo@3,0:c", then you would
-               use filename="/dev/dsk/foo@3,0\:c". '-' is a reserved name,
-               meaning stdin or stdout. Which of the two depends on the read/write
-               direction set.
+               filename=/dev/sda:/dev/sdb. On Windows, disk devices are accessed
+               as \\.\PhysicalDrive0 for the first device, \\.\PhysicalDrive1
+               for the second etc.  If the wanted filename does need to 
+               include a colon, then escape that with a '\' character. 
+               For instance, if the filename is "/dev/dsk/foo@3,0:c", 
+               then you would use filename="/dev/dsk/foo@3,0\:c". 
+               '-' is a reserved name, meaning stdin or stdout. Which of the 
+               two depends on the read/write direction set.
 
 opendir=str    Tell fio to recursively add any file it can find in this
                directory and down the file system tree.
@@ -492,6 +494,8 @@ ioengine=str        Defines how the job issues io to the file. The following
 
                        solarisaio Solaris native asynchronous io.
 
+                       windowsaio Windows native asynchronous io.
+
                        mmap    File is memory mapped and data copied
                                to/from using memcpy(3).